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Hide and Seek! ... The Ninja Way!

Uchiha Obito, in light of realizing his shinobi simply couldn't work together, decided to take action! In what way you ask? By way of making his shinobi work together for a common goal!

A game of Hide and Seek!

Not just any game though, it's a game where he's set it up so pretty much the only people exempt are ones on long missions already (which isn't many people and no player characters) and himself, mainly because someone has to keep track of assigning short missions, and keeping an eye on clients, and pulling people to guard rotations mid-game. People will return to their teams around their missions/guard rotations, of course. Hopefully, their team didn't 'die' in the meantime.

The scarves being used as life tokens are brightly colored, as shown above, and will have a Konoha symbol sewn onto each end in black.

Location: The game will be found outside the southwest wall of Konoha, so don't worry about getting any civilians caught up in it. The area will be marked off by sealed ropes that if crossed with a scarf will ping an alert that you just 'died' and you'll be fetched by someone also 'dead' or the Hokage.

Rules of Engagement!
Rule 1: If your whole team loses their scarves, they have 'died' and are out. You then have the option of either helping to keep track of other teams that 'died' or to return to your normal duties. Anyone whose team 'dies' in the first three days owes Obito three days of D-ranks as payment with your temporary team. You can use scarves stolen from other teams as backups for your own scarves to keep you 'alive'.

Rule 2: At least one flag in your possession must always be physically visible! This means you may layer a Genjutsu over it so it doesn't appear visible, so long as it actually is.

Rule 3: No lethal Jutsu! This is a game, not a war, and Obito wants there to be no casualties. Any accidental injuries severe enough for a medic should be handled immediately before that team may return to play.

Rule 4: Get to know your temporary teammates! That's the whole point of this exercise, and Obito's grand goal for it is to have Konoha be more unified in the wake of this event.

Dates: In-game this will go from the 15th of October to the 23rd of October!

Rewards: The teams still standing at the end will have each member permitted to decline a single mission of their choice, no questions asked, for the next two months. Another perk is that they will have first choice of missions should they arrive early enough in the day when there is a rush on them.

Team Arrangements!
Each line is a team, as given to the characters by Obito. Anyone on Hiatus, of course, needn't actually do anything if they aren't here, but can backthread it later if they wish. Every team has four people, so teams with three are welcome to use the NPC journal to play their fourth teammate if they like! You're also welcome to use the NPC journal for named, and unnamed, shinobi in the free for all as opposition to your teams.

Sakura, Neji, Ami, Mika
Kakashi, Adela, Itachi, NPC Kiba
Hinata, Gai, Shisui, NPC Iruka
Sasuke, Yamato, Rin, NPC Lee

NPC TEAMS
All NPCs in here. There are more than this, but just to give you an idea of how varied the teams are...

Naruto, Kurenai, Shino, Ino
Chouji, Shisui Genin, Minato, Tenten
Yuugao, Shibi, Shikamaru, Ibiki
Asuma, Hayate, Izumo, Jiraiya
Hana, Inoichi, Kotetsu, Hizashi

Teams enter the area in the order of listing! Remember all the Konoha shinobi not otherwise occupied are going to be here, so there is more than just the four teams. It's a free for all guys!

Have Fun Everyone!

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She'd only worked with one of her teammates, which was as good as saying she only knew one of them. But, if they'd drawn names out of some sort of lottery for teams across all of Konoha, one of them being a jounin she had encountered before was good luck. Familiar teammates made better teams. At least their team would have two or more people that knew each other working on it. It might help balance the fact that most of her not-genjutsu based abilities were too serious to use in a game of capturing scarves.

Perhaps also fortunate was that there was at least one jounin (or two, she didn’t know for sure, given her unfamiliarity with the last member of the team) to lead the team. It meant that, as only a chuunin, she wasn't compelled to attempt to take charge of an unfamiliar team. The burden of figuring out the strengths and weaknesses of the members of the team didn't fall straight onto her shoulders from the outset.

Thus she saw no need to speak immediately upon their gathering. Instead, she simply watched the elder Hyuuga expectantly.

Neji had stared at the assignments and withheld a sigh. Not that he minded Sakura of course, having parted on relatively decent terms, but she still confused him in a way. Ami was Shisui's genin; he remembered her from the Adela incident, and the last name he didn't know. He knew that Mika was a female Konoha shinobi, but nothing beyond that. He didn't know her face, rank, or age, and usually he had access to files on his teammates before they went anywhere so he had a decent breakdown of their strengths and weaknesses and how to utilize them effectively on the field.

In any case, it was their team that would enter first. Neji idly toyed with the ends of their team's pale purple scarf, relieved that at the very least, it wasn't terribly bright. Not that he was sure how much he even cared to win so much as make it through the first three days. But already, his mind was ticking off various strategies they could go in with. He'd probably end up leading by default unless Mika happened to be a veteran Jounin. In any case, he'd save the briefing for when the other half of their team arrived.

In the meantime, he was left with Sakura, and he still didn't know what to say to her. He looked over the team list again, frowning at the number of strong teams that could easily overpower them. They'd have to play this game more to the hiding side than seeking.

"Quite the line-up Hokage-sama put together. We have a number of formidable teams to watch out for."

Purple probably wasn't the best color to be around her neck, in terms of stealth pink and purple wasn't exactly subtle. As much as she was capable of combating that with henge and genjutsu, that would only do so much for some of the people that must have been involved in the competition...

When the jounin spoke, she frowned and glanced down at the list from where she stood. "Shisui Uchiha...which one is his team?" She was most used to dealing with him, as far as fighting allies went, but he was also the one best fit for neutralizing her presence on the team. Knowing who else was on his team would probably be a good idea, if only to have an idea of how to best avoid his.

Not that his was the only one that would be a threat, of course, but...her own master was the one that it seemed she should be able to best counter (or at least avoid).

Neji glanced down briefly to double-check. "Hinata-sama, Gai-sensei, and Iruka-sensei."

A strong team, but one they just might be able to break apart if they were good enough about it. Against Genjutsu, he could do little more than detect and dispel, but Uchiha genjutsu was on a different level than ordinary genjutsu. He could take Gai and Hinata separately, and wasn't all that worried about Iruka.

Neji shifted. "You have some talent with genjutsu, correct?" He recalled glancing at her file before, but the mission wasn't likely to have combat and never did. "And an earth affinity?"

So then, two close associates of the Hokage and her old academy teacher. She, too, wasn't particularly concerned about Iruka on that team. He wouldn't know any of her techniques, considering she'd entirely failed to cultivate anything useful in a practical technique sense while in the academy.

At his inquiries, she gave a short nod. Her skill with genjutsu wasn't anything on an Uchiha level, but she at least knew how to handle sharingan-based genjutsu. That wasn't useful at all in a general sense, but against her master she was reasonably certain she could go all out without danger. At least as long as there weren't other Uchiha around to witness it.

"As long as we stay in close proximity to each other, I'll be able to obscure the number and positions of the scarves in our possession." He might or might not have been asking about her genjutsu skill for that purpose, but it seemed wise to inform him of that capability regardless.

Neji nodded, relieved that if they came into conflict with that team, Sakura could hopefully handle Shisui on some level. But more importantly, the ability to disguise would work very well for them, because he wasn't sure direct conflict was feasible for their team.

"That ability will be invaluable in the field," he returned with a half smile, then turned his attention back to the sheet to finish memorizing it. "I'll keep a vigilant watch over us, of course.. We'll just need to decide shifts."

She couldn't say for sure whether they'd be able to take on the other teams as those teams stood. Without knowing the capabilities of Mika or Ami, she couldn't really make a decision on what sorts of teams they should target or avoid (other than that it was best, if at all possible, to avoid Shisui's). But that was why it was best she wasn't the highest ranking ninja in the team. That responsibility didn't fall on her shoulders.

She nodded firmly at his decision, though. "Do you know anything about the other two on our team...? If it's necessary, I'll be able to disguise our positions or confuse other teams with my level of genjutsu as well...provided they lack the possession of a sharingan or byakugan." She knew next to nothing about the Byakugan, after all, there was no way she could tailor her genjutsu to overcome one of those except by chance.

Neji hummed, trying to recall anything else he might remember, but came up blank. He shrugged, handing the list over to Sakura to pursue herself.

"I know that Ami is one of Uchiha Shisui's genin students. She's small and determined, but I can't say anything beyond that. Mika.. is entirely unknown to me. I'd say she's at least a Chuunin from the snatches of assignments I've heard about, but beyond that, we'll just have to find out when she gets here."

Was she late? Mika really hoped she wasn't especially when meeting a group she didn't even know yet. Sure it wasn't serious like a real mission but no way could she come off as a flake. It was something about hide and seek? With scarves? Something the Hokage had put together for team building. Thankfully she hadn't forgotten the files on the other members. She'd heard of Neji but didn't know much more than his standing as a jonin. The other two were even more of a mystery, though Sakura's name seemed oddly familar. Mika couldn't place it though. The prospect of going against more experienced ninja was exciting!

She spotted Neji and Sakura and waved to them, her thousand watt smile was enough to get their attention. Seemed that they already knew each other and were discussing the mission. Hopefully they'd gel together pretty quickly and pull through! "Ah, hello!"

Edited 2014-10-19 05:44 (UTC)

If Mika's smile was thousand watt, Sakura's was...not a smile. She didn't smile at all, instead watching the approaching (and unfamiliar) woman with a curious frown. If Ami was a genin, then Mika was the only wildcard on the team. Which was somewhat worrying, as if neither Neji nor herself had heard of Mika...then she was either accomplished ANBU or not of a caliber to counter some of the outrageously better qualified teams listed on the paper in her hands.

She of course assumed this one was Mika if only because she looked far too old to be genin. "...'Mika'?" It was probably best to check anyway.

Mike was the friendly type, he found immediately- perhaps even to Lee and Gai's extreme. Smiles like that were often threat of an incoming hug, but normal people didn't hug strangers, so Neji relaxed.

"Mika-san," he greeted with a nod and a small smile of his own. She looked older and wore a vest, but her rank beyond Chuunin wasn't immediately apparent. "I'm Hyuuga Neji, and this is Haruno Sakura- two of your teammates for this assignment."

Wah~ Not even noon and Mika was going to be hanging out with a cute girl! The other one...looked like a guy. With pretty hair. Mika was convinced she had the best team already.

"Ne, that's me!" She practically skipped over to the other members in her excitement. Calm down child. "Nice to meet you Sakura-san, Neji-san!" She wouldn't elaborate on her background until pressed for it, though Mika didn't mind talking about herself in the least. Neji's surname conjured up the image of a very serious stuck-in-the-mud type of fellow but Mika hoped that he was a bit flexible. Again she felt a niggling sensation at Saukra's name, someone had mentioned her in passing? Otherwise the pinkette was a mystery.

...An excitable type like Gai and Lee would be to the team's detraction. Regardless of what capability she brought to the team, stealth seemed like the smartest tactic to build off of. Loud people were not exactly the best allies to have on stealth missions.

As she'd experienced before.

She'd be rather surprised if Mika knew anything of her...and dismayed if it was Haruno she recognized instead. "Mika." She gave the woman a curious look before she continued to speak. "Have you seen the list of other teams yet?"

Ami slipped in quietly, her own scarf wound around the base of her high collar. She had opted for a darker shade of pink for her ribbon and dress so as not to clash terribly or stand out more than usual. She glanced around at the assorted people before her: her teacher's other student, a Hyuuga, and... a woman with palpable exuberance. She would be 'Yamada' then.

"I apologize for my lateness," she bowed, not straying very far from the doorway. "I had to deal with some family business beforehand, and it ran longer than I expected. I look forward to working with you, Haruno-senpai, Hyuuga-senpai, Yamada-senpai." She nodded to each respectfully, packing more solemnity into her voice and carriage than such a small, doll-like girl should be able to.

"Ne, I looked the list over." She hadn't recognized most of the names. Itachi and Shisui she was already familiar with. She hadn't really interacted with Sasuke so she didn't know him much better than anyone else... A few other names stood out only because some of the participants were what shinobi would consider famous. Mika was likely more in the dark than her team, she was usually cooped up in the research facility when home. "Ne, we've got our work cut out for us!"

Yes this was only an exercise and not a life or death situation but it wouldn't kill Mika to dial down the enthusiasm. The team overall seemed pretty low key, except Mika. It was a good thing she hadn't re-dyed her hair recently or she'd stand out even more.

As Ami made her entrance Mika offered her a big smile. "Looks like everyone's here! Guess we should get into our plans." Okay, it was serious time. Mika could do this.

Neji nodded in return to Mika's greeting, humming a short note while they spoke.. and glanced at Ami with a smile.

"It's fine Ami, but as we're going to be the first team into the area, we need to avoid taking too long here." And with a look at the three others- Mika in particular- he took the initiative.

"Alright, I need a short breakdown of your individual strengths and weaknesses. To give you a decent idea, I'm a taijutsu specialist with some ninjutsu capability- primarily earthen defense. My doujutsu allows me to detect chakra and see great distances. I lack much in long-range offensive capability, and have virtually no talent with genjutsu beyond detection."

Edited 2014-10-27 21:37 (UTC)

Ah...that genin of his. She'd forgotten the name, but not the appearance of the young genin girl. Once she spotted the small girl, however, she recalled it. (Although it wasn't necessary anyway, since the teams list had it...)

She nodded briefly to Ami, but didn't really have an opportunity to say anything else before Mika spoke up once more and Neji got down to business. Which was for the best, as he had a point. What little advantage they had would be squandered if they stood around socializing instead of using their time well.

He should know her strengths already, but for the benefit of the other teammates (and thus teamwork), she gave a brief response anyway. "I specialize in kenjutsu and earth jutsu. I have some talent with genjutsu and as well, but nothing on a level that can compete with the Uchiha we'll encounter."

Edited 2014-10-27 23:19 (UTC)

The look toward her from Neji didn't go unnoticed. He'd obviously taken the lead of the team and Mika didn't particularly mind. Given what little the woman had seen Neji and Sakura at least were familiar with each other. Ami was also someone Neji recognized.

So that left Mika as the "unknown factor."

She quietly noted the information the other two gave, thankful that Sakura seemed to have skill in genjutsu which was lacking in herself. The silence after Sakura prompted her to speak.

"Ne, I'm most proficient in taijutsu and typically use ninjutsu and kenjutsu in conjunction. My fire and water jutsus are...fairly balanced. Enough that I tend to use them together for diversions and such. My genjutsu is rather basic, not much beyond detecting myself." Hopefully that was enough to fill things in.

"OKAY TEAM!" Did anyone nominate Rin as leader of the team she'd been assigned to? No...? Someone should probably try to say something if they want to be in charge, then, because she's just taking initiative until someone else says something.

Also, posing with her hands on her hips, chin raised and determined, scarf wrapped artfully around her neck as she stood at the entrance of the field of battle. "Even though we have enough scarves to win already, lets be the team with the most at the end!" ...She laughed after a moment. "...Or maybe not the most...but it's useful if we cut through competition and get ahead so we've got plenty to fight with in the final stretch, right?"

...Because...they were totally gonna win. Right?

Right??

She beamed brightly at her teammates, expectant.

Rin was ... loud. If Sasuke hadn't actually been hungover before in his life, he might have assumed this feeling was what it was. As things were, he was mostly just sleep-deprived and extremely low on his already-limited store of participating-in-Obito's-weird-ideas energy, and winding up on a team with Obito's cheerier teammate was scraping the very bottom of those resources. Only the awareness of a pair of shinobi who hadn't known him since childhood kept Sasuke in a formal stance.

"... Rin-san," he said after a moment of schooling his tone into something polite. "Given the composition of the other teams, wouldn't it make more sense to let them tire each other out first?"

Unspoken: and give us a few days of doing nothing more intensive than defending our necks so that Sasuke could maybe take the birds out to give them some proper training, give his room more than a cursory cleaning before Mikoto could descend on it and rearrange everything, and maybe sleep.

What kind of a person went into a competition knowingly and also sleep deprived? She would be disappointed in Sasuke if she were aware of this.

If he was going to be polite because of the company, though, then she would take full advantage of that. For the greater good of the team. "That would let teams like the one your brother is on get an advantage in scarf number over us! Sensei is out there, too, and he won't tire out any time soon." She shook her head, frowning determinedly. "No! The only way to compete is to use our advantage of early placement to go out there and catch the weak fish first! Then we'll be ready to take on the teams that have your brother, Sensei, and Kakashi."

And that would also keep Sasuke from slinking off and trying to get out of the game.

The mention of Itachi left Sasuke trying to picture his brother half as fired up about stealing scarves from genin and chuunin as Rin was -- not an easy mental image to compose. Shisui he could maybe buy trying to put forward some excitement in good faith, and the whole thing bore the obvious marks of Obito's overly-extraverted touch, but in general Sasuke wasn't particularly feeling the need to toe an Uchiha party line here.

Minato was a real problem, though, Sasuke's face falling. A few days of games would barely tire the Fourth, and even if Naruto's father wasn't quite the same as his mother, they were a family of participators.

Though if they were to follow Rin's suggestion ... Sasuke took a look at the team rosters again, raising an eyebrow.

"All of these teams have at least a jounin each," he pointed out. "Only two of them have just new jounin, so besides those two, which ones would be the weak teams?"

Then Sasuke just wasn't being creative enough, because Rin could! He could definitely be like that if he...wanted to be. And obviously everyone had every reason to want to. And besides, Kakashi was a threat too, even if he'd pretend not to be invested at all until he struck.

"Hmm...well." She glanced over at him with a curious expression. "You've lived here for five years I haven't. What do you think? From your observations of these people, which ones would you say are the easiest teams to deal with?"

He shouldn't have left himself open to being drawn into planning like that. That was a poor move that was leading to his divulging information rather than gaining it, which was something that Sasuke was hearing in his head mostly in the voice of the no-nonsense special jounin who had explained it to him several times earlier this month; Sasuke blinked, forcefully, to remind himself that he was awake and not having a terrible dream about an assessment, and looked at the team rosters again.

"All of them are objectively balanced," he said after a moment. "It'd be more important to figure out who has experience teaming with whom and take advantage of any potential gaps in teamwork."

Two of three people she was working with, Adela had at least met before. For the moment she thought they were at least on decent terms. Kiba and Akamaru were wild cards, but part of the Inuzuka clan. They'd be more useful for tracking, revealing traps, and spotting ambushes if what she knew was right. Itachi's and Kakashi's skills... Kakashi was famous for Sharingan, but other than that and dog summoning she didn't know much. Itachi was an unknown as well, but she felt safe in thinking that his prowess with the sharingan would come in handy. So how to use it all in conjunction with her own skills?

The best way to win would be to collect as many scarves as possible, but that would risk their own scarves in the process. At the same time, the team she was dealt seemed more than ideal to simply go on the offensive instead of disappearing to the shadows and hiding the entire time. But, there was only one way to find out for sure.

She was standing there in front of the three taller men (and one giant canine) before her, nodding as she crossed her arms over her chest and began to speak with her eyes -- blind and seeing -- making contact with each of them, "We need to know for sure what each other's strengths are before plotting out a strategy. From what I know of you guys, we're more suited to an ambush offense -- finding the other teams before, for the most part, they find us. It's a meaningless strategy if I'm wrong though, so we're going over this now. I'm strong with doton, katon, and suiton techniques as well as melee combat with kenjutsu and decent taijutsu."

She nodded her head to the next person, waiting for them to speak and say what they were good at. The only way they could possibly have a chance of getting through was through teamwork, and she wasn't about to take this lightly -- even if it was a deceivingly-simple training exercise.

Edited 2014-10-19 04:27 (UTC)

Taking up the mantle of the leader. Somehow fitting, from what he knew of the redhead and her vivacious personality. So Itachi merely reigned himself into listening for now, as Adela explained her expertise and glanced along the line. He thumbed his scarf in the meantime, a short hum escaping through thin lips.

"Genjutsu, Katon, Suiton, and Kenjutsu." The girl was right, with the Sharingan on the squad, and two impressive noses in addition, they would be able to hide and catch the drop on other squads, provided they weren't fighting against the Byakugan. Genjutsu traps not requiring eye contact nor physical touch were easy enough to set in place, and they would make off with a scarf before the enemy was even aware of it.

His scarf was tucked in beside one of his pocketed hands, and he stood regarding his team with a quiet amount of distaste hidden behind a lazy expression and the thankful facade of his mask.

He had reasonable knowledge of their skills already, and though he could see a plan formulating in his head.. It was both apparently not needed due to the emergence of their supposed leader, and seemed way too much like wasted effort. There was an easy way to win this without any collateral, but he was interested to see what might come of the young girls strategising.

One thing he definitely didn't like was talking about himself, so the expectant question was a difficult one for him to answer.

"Raiton, primarily, though I also have a perchance for doton... I, uh.." He scratched awkwardly at his shock of pale hair. Oh, this was difficult, how had they both managed to scale their abilities down so easily? "..Ninjutsu, taijutsu. I also have a pack of summoning hounds with various tracking, ambush and attack skills..?"

Kiba frowned with either concentration or annoyance that the other three got to speak before he did - but then again, saving the best for last was just as good as being first, and he hopped down from Akamaru's back to instead stand proud with his hands on his hips once his turn came around.

"Most of my taijutsu attacks rely on Inuzuka ninjutsu and Akamaru," Kiba announced loudly as if he wanted to make sure that the civillians back in the village were aware of his stupendous strengths. "As for other skills, our noses are the best in the village. We can sniff out anything from miles away - don't even need a hanky to sniff beforehand. It's all up here." he tapped the side of his nose with one hand, his other arm bent at the elbow, leaning on Akamaru's huge flank.

"I'm gonna go right ahead and appoint myself leader here since I'm pretty sure I'm the most capable," he said to the other chuunin and the two jounin looking back at him, entirely unphased by the backwards notion he just described. "And I think our best course of action is definitely gonna be hoarding. Round up extra lives and knock the other teams out as fast as we can. Ain't much point in fuckin' around if we can win this thing in a few days, right?"

"So initially, ambush offensive seems like a good plan," Adela nodded, pausing before glancing to Kiba. His declaration was a little... Annoying, but if he wanted to lead he'd have to do more than boast. So would she, now that she thought about it, and it seemed like Kakashi and Itachi weren't vying to control anything.

"It involves all of us -- scent tracking to find the others first, genjutsu to throw opponents off until it's too late, and doton to trap our targets seems ideal to avoid the most combat and to make things easier on us. That's with blind intel on the rest of the teams, but we have the time to see whether or not it's an appropriate strategy to use on any given team. For example, I don't think it'd be an apt one against any teams with Hyuuga clan members, or even other Uchiha. That and our opponents range from Genin to Jonin to Kage level, so deceptively simple tactics might not apply to everyone. I'm willing to hear ideas on how to deal with doujutsu users, as well as anything you know on the others participating in game."

Her eyes fell particularly on Kiba, then Kakashi as she spoke again, "We'll need your expertise to find traps as we come across them as well, and to foil attacks that may be aimed at us before opponents think we're ready for them. It might even involve setting some off on purpose to attract attention and strike whoever comes to investigate. I still think trapping and immobilizing is the best method, and if we pick an area of the enclosure that's relatively downwind to the rest of it at any given time we should be able to more easily pick up on incoming opponents before they ever reach us."

Edited 2014-10-22 03:24 (UTC)

Itachi had a certain way of dealing with people brimming with confidence like Kiba, that was, to let them stumble and learn the error of their ways. If he wanted to appoint himself leader, that was fine, but when he eventually came to a problem it would be his own matter.

Ah, but this was a team effort, after all. He couldn't let him do that and risk them a scarf that could make a difference, could he. While the other was rambling, he was busy wrapping his scarf to one of his legs; specifically, the side where he held his weapons holster, to make it more difficult to get off of him.

He remained silent through Adela's explanation, allowing her to get her information in before processing it himself.

"Dojutsu in Konohagakure is divided between Sharingan and Byakugan, for the most part." High level genjutsu and copying abilities versus long range sight and the ability to see through solid objects. A Hyuuga would be able to sense oncoming genjutsu traps.

"I imagine most teams will naturally employ an ambush tactic or try to remain hidden as to prevent themselves from becoming a statistic." Why go looking when you could wait for people to waltz into a trap, after all.

"One, or two Kage bunshin should provide a sufficient decoy from which to draw out other hidden squads."

This test was so reminiscent of his sensei's bell test it was almost painful to go along with. If Obito had been trying to challenge them with something new he was missing the mark by a long shot. Kakashi had experience both in the offensive and defensive roles in challenges such as these, and knew it's lessons well.

Aside from feeling just a little patronized by it's simplicity, Kakashi knew this game had a purpose, and the more he thought about it the less likely it seemed that his previous plan would come into fruition.

"I agree with Itachi. A covert ambush seems to be a lot more strategically optimal than an offensive one. I don't see the point in attacking if we don't have to." Kakashi shrugged, his thumb tucked behind him in his pouch. Tempted.

"While hoarding scarves at first seems like a good idea, we have to remember that we only need a minimum of one to succeed."

Kiba's grin fell as the older two members of his team spoke up. Both seemed to be leaning more towards what Kiba found himself roped into almost every day - patrol duty. Keeping an eye out, raising the alert and sitting back to let the attack take it's course without seeing any action himself.

He wasn't down with that.

"Are you kidding me?" he grumbled up at the other ninken user like everything was definitely his fault. "The more scarves we get the quicker we knock the other guys out and the faster we're the only ones left! You guys really wanna be stuck sittin' in some god damn tree for a week?"

"It wouldn't be for a week, depending on how many of the other teams get impatient," She nodded, glancing to Kiba before she walked over to him. She agreed with Itachi and Kakashi that it was a good idea to be more strategic, but the other chuunin was being a hard sell...

Hm.

Without really thinking about it she swayed her hips a little, walking up to Kiba as she tried to make her voice more sweet and appealing while she spoke, "Letting the other teams get impatient, letting them come after us and underestimating our prowess until it's too late..."

A gentle finger poked at his chest to punctuate her point, and a smirk tugged at her lips when she added, "Taking their scarves in their complacence of us. Showing them that we're the best, and all because we chose to take our time. Doesn't it sound good, Captain?"

... This kind of made her feel dirty, to be so manipulative like this. But if it could coax him to listen, it'd be worth it in the end. She needed to practice this kind of deceptive tactic, anyway.

Was she....

Was she really....?

She was.

And it left him slightly confused, enough for him to actually make an expression for a moment before correcting himself with a harsh blink.

Kiba sure seemed the type to actually fall for something like that, and Adela was a healthy young woman. Surely, any moment now, the Inuzuka's face would be lighting up like a fresh, ripe tomato. He could already hear the inevitable stuttering.

He didn't speak though, not yet. A glance was shot, towards Kakashi, trying to see if the older shinobi shared his reaction.

Kakashi's nose was tucked in a small book, his eyes cast down with a look of vague interest in his visible eye - but it definitely wasn't directed at the proceedings in front of him.

Kiba was an idiot, Kakashi knew that much, and whether he fell for the taunt or not didn't make much difference to him.. He just wanted to get this over with as quickly as possible, so his focus had strayed.

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Kiba's eyebrows raised, his eyes going like dinner plates as he stared at the girl suddenly up in his space. He was red in an instant, melding with the scarlet of his tattoos as the blush burned furiously in his cheeks and the tip of his ears. Damn it... He could tell he was being played here, but he wasn't exactly one for strong resistance.

"Sure, that sounds good.." he mumbled, half pouting and half frustrated with the way his own proverbial tail was wagging at being called 'Captain'. "But I don't wanna be the one kept back just for tracking. Let the guy with the summons over here do that since he gives the least shits outta all of us," he jerked a thumb at Kakashi, then folded his arms and puffed out his chest, which might have looked a little more dominant had it not been for his pink face. "Akamaru and I aren't just a pair 'a noses, y'know. We're kick-ass at offensive attacks, too."

Mostly he was just sulking at not getting a chance to shine. He'd be happy with taking his time as long as he got a good majority percentage of the limelight.

"No one said you had to just track. Part of an ambush is catching the enemy off guard, and we need both you and Akamaru-san to help with the assault. Otherwise it just doesn't work... Kakashi-san and I can trap them with our techniques while you and Itachi-san go in and finish the job whenever someone comes our way. Maybe that's a tactic more to your liking, captain?"

Her fingers trailed down his cheek gently with her speech, trying to accentuate that doing this was a good thing and that he needed to for their success. Oh did she ever feel dirty though, but it was for the good of the mission, it had to... It was so hard not to crack her expression or tone though, and even then she felt her skin starting to go pink. No, she had to hold on just a little longer...

Well, if it worked, he wouldn't fault her for it at all. Unfortunate that instead of going through with plans, their first task was getting the teams on board with a goal.

(The entire reason this event was happening, honestly.)

"I don't object to this." he adds, in the hope it will get Kiba to finally agree on a plan. Kiba is a good source of offense, and if he is fully focused and willing to work with the team as a whole, it will strengthen the team that much more.

In the meantime, they are targets, so he keeps his Sharingan and his senses ready. It is likely other squads are having similar issues, but you can never be too cautious.

Edited ([I caught the wrong icon bug]) 2014-11-02 17:52 (UTC)

At first, Kakashi didn't make any indication that he agreed or otherwise with the proceedings going on, but he did look up from his book as Adela ran her hand down Kiba's face.

He had to hand it to her that it was smart. Using that kind of strategy was awfully risky, both in threat of embarrassment and failure.. But Kiba was transparent. There was no doubt that it might have not worked, and it had if the look on the Inuzuka's face was anything to go by.

His mask pulled in a smirk, and he looked back down at his book.

Kiba listened and finally, begrudgingly, agreed. The stroke to his cheek definitely didn't sway his answer any. Nope, not at all.

"Yeah..." he muttered, his breath all too breathy, and cleared his throat to repeat the phrase in a more gruff voice. "Yeah. Sure. Sounds good to me."

Could he really be blamed for his gullibility? She was a pretty girl, after all.

The smile on her face was sweet, warm, and a hint of something genuine as the fact that it worked processed. She took her hand away then, letting a finger linger on his chin to beckon him forward just a bit before flashing that smile to Akamaru. It was a bit of an apology in the gesture, trying to silently let him know that it was for the sake of the mission and that she didn't want to be so manipulative. That was when she turned to Itachi and Kakashi, nodding as she tried to go back to being professional.

It would have been easier if she wasn't beet red then.

"All right, you heard our captain. We have our tactics in place, so let's prepare before the other teams are on our asses while we're not ready."

"You'll want to wrap your scarf somewhere where it's not easily ripped off your person, nor does it become a liability when it is grabbed."

His was his leg, and while his leg could be tripped up, it was also by his weapons, and being forced to get so close to him meant the possibility of being kicked, or dealing with his eyes.

Sensei was out here, along with Iruka. People who knew his fighting style were more of a threat than other Leaf Shinobi, but he had spent months, and months without seeing them. He had new tricks up his sleeves.

"Traps should be efficient but non-lethal." They only wanted the scarf, not to amputate a leg.

"And we should move." The Byakugan users would likely close in.

Kakashi's was where he usually kept his bells, since he was used to protecting that side. It was tucked into his pocket, under his flak but definitely on show and easily noticeable - not that anyone would get close to it.

"Do you suggest we take to the trees or remain on ground?" Kakashi asked, shutting his book with a quick snap of the pages - it was time to actually get something done now, after all.

Kiba knocked his hips forwards, hands behind his head as he watched on with the tiniest of little frowns, his ears still burning with color. Akamaru had sat by now, his front legs crossed one over the other and made a short whining noise when Adela smiled at him - he was either scolding Adela for teasing Kiba, or giving her a look of sympathy for the teasing Kiba would inevitably eventually give her in return.

"Akamaru and I are better on ground.." he huffed at Kakashi's question. "Since we have two sensory types, I should stay on ground and you should run through the trees above me. That way we broaden our scent range, air and ground."

"I can agree to that," For once Adela kept her speech short, still rather red as she tied her scarf firmly around mid-thigh -- making sure that it showed no loose ends and wouldn't stray away from her in the middle of a fight by tying the ends together. The rules just stated it had to be visible, not easy to grab.

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